Enforcement actions

The founders of the South Carolina bank, which liquidated after lavish spending and losses depleted its capital, paid a total of $55,000 in fines and face restrictions on future employment.

The insurance company, facing regulatory scrutiny and lawsuits over a former sales relationship with Wells Fargo, said it may press its partner to cover costs after halting the sales.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the New York attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a New Jersey law firm and its owner for allegedly luring 9/11 first responders and football players with brain injuries into taking out loans with high interest rates as advances on settlements.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday ordered Mastercard and the prepaid debit card company UniRush to pay $13 million in restitution and fines for a service breakdown in October 2015 that left thousands of customers without access to their accounts.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hit Prospect Mortgage with a $3.5 million fine for illegally paying kickbacks to two real estate brokers and a mortgage servicer.

The CFPB sued the attorneys and law firm that worked with now-bankrupt debt relief firm Morgan Drexen, alleging they continued a scam that charged millions in fees to thousands of consumers seeking debt relief.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ordered two units of Citigroup to pay a combined $28.8 million for failing to help borrowers with foreclosure relief.

Navient Corp. was sued by a U.S. regulator over allegations that the student loan giant "systematically" cheated borrowers.

Violations of Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money-laundering compliance remain a hot topic for financial institutions as regulators can bar them from branch building and bank acquisitions. Here are some notable regulatory actions that are still unresolved.

The issue stemmed from how the company handled collateralized-loan obligations for calculating capital ratios.